In 2014, Bitnation was under gained media attention when, just before the launch of the crowdsale, three members of the team left the organization with an open resignation letter.
They published their resignation letters on Bitcoin Magazine claiming that their reason for leaving was the fact that Bitnation was not incorporated in a nation statejurisdiction.
Tarkowski Tempelhof said that they were not coders nor part of the core team. She doubted that they still put their faith on corporate governance, the traditional mindset on regulations, instead of the Blockchain technology adopted in Bitnation. As Bitnation is an open-source product, Tarkowski Tempelhof made the point that anyone was welcome to fork the project and take it in a different direction.

In 1991, the term "Blockchain" was coined by Stuart Haber and W.Scott Stornetta. In 2009, the first "Blockchain" was created by Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitnation applied the Ethereum technology for its core government services since 2014.

The Pangea Arbitration Token (PAT) is an ERC20 compatible in-app token for the Pangea Jurisdiction. The PAT token is a reward token for accumulating proof-of-reputation tokens. Non-tradable reputation tokens are issued when Citizens create a contract, successfully complete a contract, or resolve a dispute attached to a contract. PAT is algorithmically distributed based on performance, rather than purchasing power, popularity or attention.